AI WISE

About AI WISE

Adaptable
Inquiry-driven
Human-centered

AI WISE is a four-phase process for collaborating with artificial intelligence through intentional inquiry. It helps people examine the questions, assumptions, and frames they bring into the exchange, then remain active in shaping, testing, applying, and learning from what emerges. Its purpose is to protect human discernment, agency, and responsibility while expanding our capacity to draw on the vast knowledge AI can bring to the table.

When we shift into expansive inquiry, we open the field beyond the limits of the initial frame and allow new possibilities to emerge. AI can then become a window rather than only a mirror.

An open window drawn in fine line, with a stem of translucent leaves growing up through it.
Book cover: The Art of the Question, a Guide to Human Inquiry in the Age of AI

The Book about AI and Inquiry - Written by AI

What if the most powerful tool in the age of artificial intelligence isn't the technology, but the quality of the questions you bring to it? That's what three AI models wrote this book about.

The Art of the Question began with one prompt, posed separately to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini: If you were to write a book what would you write it about? What followed was an unusual experiment in human-AI collaboration.

Composed in dialogue with ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini

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Process & mindset

A human-centered process for collaborating with AI

Four connected phases turn a quick request into an intentional inquiry, while keeping human perspective, responsibility, and learning at the center.

  • Pause before engaging

    Weigh

    A finely drawn compass, needle finding its bearing.

    Clarify what you are trying to understand, create, or decide.

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    Consider what you already know, what assumptions may be shaping the question, what context matters, and whether AI is the right resource.

    • What am I trying to understand, create, decide, or improve?
    • What context does AI actually need, and what stays mine?
    • Is AI the right resource for this inquiry?

  • Engage intentionally

    Interact

    A bare tree mirrored in still water, an exchange reflecting back.

    Treat the exchange as a conversation rather than a one-time request.

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    Add context, ask follow-up questions, invite alternatives, challenge assumptions, and redirect the conversation as your understanding develops.

    • Add context and ask for alternatives or the reasoning behind them.
    • Challenge an assumption or request a missing perspective.
    • Ask what needs verification, and redirect when the exchange drifts.

  • Integrate and prepare

    Synthesize

    A spiral of leaves and seed-heads in muted sage, rust, and gold.

    Bring what emerged into relationship with your own knowledge, experience, evidence, values, and purpose.

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    Check what matters, request changes, reject what does not belong, and create the final direction, decision, or product for which you remain responsible.

    • What should I ask AI to revise or clarify?
    • What must I contribute, change, verify, or create myself?
    • What final result am I prepared to apply and take responsibility for?

  • Learn through reflection

    Evaluate

    A slender wildflower growing up from a thin horizon line.

    After applying the result, examine what actually happened.

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    Consider what worked, what did not, what surprised you, and what new information should shape the next decision, revision, or AI-supported inquiry.

    • What happened when I applied the result?
    • What worked, and what did not?
    • What surprised me or became visible only through application?
    • What did I learn about collaborating with this AI model?
    • What new context should I carry into the next inquiry?

Try it

AI WISE Interaction

View the interaction to learn about how different initial prompts can shape the entire interaction right away.

Before We Plant

A group is planning a community garden. Before choosing what to plant, they read the land, the people, and the purpose.

8 to 12 minutes

Open the scenario

Your progress is saved only in your own browser.

An old oak arches over still water. In its reflection, the faint outline of a city appears among the branches.

The goal isn't just a creation or solution.
It's a more capable human.

“I'm comfortable using AI to ________________, but I'll keep ________________ human-led, because ________________.”

Workshops & webinars

Current public offerings

AI WISE is available in two core formats for public and general-audience learning: an in-person workshop and a live online webinar. Each can be adapted to the needs, context, and goals of your organization, group, team, or community. Contact us to learn more.

In-person workshop, about 2.5 hours

Cultivating Curiosity with AI

A welcoming, hands-on session for building confidence, curiosity, and discernment in human-AI collaboration.

Designed for libraries, community spaces, learning programs, and public-facing organizations, this workshop introduces the complete four-phase AI WISE process: Weigh, Interact, Synthesize, and Evaluate.

Participants begin with their own knowledge and assumptions, engage AI through intentional inquiry, shape what emerges into something they are prepared to use, and evaluate what happens after it is applied.

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Live online webinar, about 60 minutes

Using AI Without Giving Away Your Thinking

A focused introduction to the two phases that shape the beginning of an AI exchange: Weigh and Interact.

Participants explore how to pause and read the situation before asking, then guide the exchange through context, follow-up questions, alternatives, challenge, and redirection.

Designed for adult learners, educators, emerging professionals, continuing-education audiences, associations, and community organizations. No prior AI experience is required.

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Workshop and webinar

Inside the sessions

What participants may experience

  • A real or fictionalized low-risk question to work through.
  • A closer look at the assumptions and framing hidden inside a question.
  • A live, guided AI exchange.
  • Practice expanding, steering, challenging, and verifying.
  • A personal boundary for thoughtful AI use.

What participants take away

  • A practical understanding of the AI WISE process.
  • A clearer sense of how their own thinking shapes the exchange.
  • Greater confidence in what should remain human-owned.
  • A responsible-use checklist or boundary.
  • More confidence to question, interact, make meaning, apply what emerges, and learn from the results.

Accessibility and participation

No paid AI account is required. Participants may use their own device, work with a partner, take part privately, or observe. No one is required to share personal information or use a private or high-stakes topic. Alternative examples and participation options can be built into each session.

Portrait of Patricia Stitson

Created by Patricia Stitson

Patricia Stitson is a learning strategist, designer, and facilitator working at the intersection of AI, learner-centered design, and community education. AI WISE grew out of sustained, hands-on collaboration with emerging AI tools, and the realization that meaningful use depends on a person's ability to question, assess, revise, challenge, integrate, and reflect.

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Let's talk AI

Curious? Let's connect.

Curious about AI WISE, thoughtful human-AI collaboration, or where all of this is heading? Connect with me to learn more, ask questions, explore an idea, or simply geek out about AI.

AI WISE workshops, webinars, courses, and educational resources can be adapted for public libraries, schools, colleges, educator development, learner-centered programs, family learning, professional associations, and community education.

Let's help people approach AI with confidence, curiosity, and discernment while keeping human perspective, responsibility, and participation at the center.

Looking for business support? For consulting, strategy, facilitation, AI adoption, or custom organizational work, connect with Patricia Stitson directly through PatriciaStitson.com.

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